iv, Appendix ; — Proceedings of 



find on reference to the account? of the Treasurer, a balance, 

 though a trifling one, in favour of the Society. It amounted 

 to £8 7 s, 3d., and would doubtless have been larger, had the 

 subscriptions of the two past years been collected. The 

 omission to do this was not unintentional. It was considered, 

 that while the operations of the Society were unavoidably 

 suspended, it was neither just nor fair to call upon subscribers 

 to pay. If it be the wish of this Meeting that these opera- 

 tions should be revived, it was not only necessary to select 

 a Secretary, but also desirable to place at the disposal of the 

 Society a room in which its Library might be placed, and its 

 proceedings held. 



After some desultory conversation, in which several gentle- 

 men took part, Mr. Dawson remarked, that public support 

 should not be solicited, until the Society had been completely 

 reorganized. It was most necessary to hold a Meeting, and 

 to appoint a Committee, before an application could be made 

 with anything like reason, either for the assistance of Govern- 

 ment or of the public With regard to the proposal to build 

 a story over the Library, he (Mr. Dawson) feared that it 

 was not a practicable one. The Library was public pro- 

 perty, and although we might contribute to the erection of 

 an upper story, the building itself would remain vested in 

 the public, and not in the Society. He would therefore pro- 

 pose, that the Secretary might be instructed temporarily to 

 rent a house in the Fort, and he thought that the funds of 

 the Society, though small, would enable them to do so, until 

 other arrangements could be made by which the Society 

 might be enabled to obtain a permanent place for the des- 

 patch of business. 



It was then Resolved: 



1. — That Mr. Dawson be kindly requested to look for and 

 engage a building in the Fort, in which the Society might be 

 accommodated for the present. (Mr, Dawson expressed his 

 assent). 



